Citroen is not your typical car manufacturer. Cars like the DS or the 2CV are part of automotive history. While most electric cars are expensive and incredibly complex, Ami is the opposite: Cheap and simple. A 2 seater, with a clever symmetrical design at its core. the best part? you don’t need a driver’s licence. A perfect vehicle for the city.

And there lies the issue. Like most large cities, Paris has a very small amount of dealerships. And those dealerships were small anyway. So Parisians had to visit the suburbs to try out a car for the city. A real catch 22.

How could Parisians test drive this car?

The idea is to put a car key into every Parisian’s pocket. And what does every Parisian have? A mobile phone. A mobile phone with plenty of apps, and in this list, Free2move, the largest car sharing app in Paris, with 600 000 users. By replacing all the cars from the apps with Ami’s, we were certain that Parisians would try out our car and discover all its USP’s, without a single salesperson needed.

If you look at Ami, you know that this car is made for urbanites. Small, electric and cheap, it’s the ideal city car. Our audience are young people who don’t dream of fancy cars, don’t dream of luxury saloons but simply need a small practical car. This demographic uses apps for everything, so letting them try out Ami in their favourite car sharing app was vital. They didn’t have to download something new but simply use a tool they already had.

In the summer of 2020, Citroen replaced hundreds of cars from the car sharing app with their little Ami. An unfamiliar sight in the streets of Paris, they immediately attracted attention. People could rent them for 10 minutes or a full day and experience what Ami was about. Electric, small, practical and fun to drive. And to further widen the audience

Within 2 months, Ami clocked in almost 200 000 test drives resulting in the quadruple of sales (vs prevision)